\t\t\t\tDo you ever find that random thoughts just pop into you head quite unexpectedly and take you by surprise? This appears to be happening to me with increasing frequency and in the most unlikely of places.<\/p>\n
For example,\u00a0on Monday\u00a0when I was\u00a0loading the dishwasher,\u00a0the name ‘Dean Gaffney’ flashed across my brain. Having no idea of who this was,\u00a0and having wrestled the pasta bowls into position, I\u00a0‘googled’\u00a0only to discover\u00a0that he\u00a0is\u00a0an ex cast member of EastEnders with a very conspicuous nasal feature.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, for some reason –\u00a0just past the Reading motorwary services whilst travelling along the M4, I felt a strange need to find out whether Bill Oddie was married. For anyone interested, he is indeed,\u00a0to a lady called Laura Beaumont (his second wife, Jean Hart being his first).<\/p>\n
On Thursday\u00a0I\u00a0was tucking into a lunch of Cajun Chicken (heartily recommended),\u00a0and it occured to me that Giraffes are quite large animals, and I wondered whether like big dogs this means the age they live to is adversely affected. Because this is something I’m sure you too have often agonised over sitting at home with your cup of tea, or\u00a0perhaps\u00a0putting out the dustbin, I will tell you; Giraffes can live up to 27 years of age, their average lifespan however being only 10 years. Personally\u00a0I’m hoping to come back as\u00a0an elephant – they live to be 70 and still look good even without night cream.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was this morning,\u00a0however, that I happened upon a new form of random thought -‘Incidental Vocabulary’. This so happened\u00a0when I was transporting an errant screwdriver and microwaveable duck\u00a0upstairs from the living room, as one does,\u00a0and the word ‘Ubiquitous’\u00a0started to\u00a0circle\u00a0around my head. For one I was unaware this word had ever formed part of my literary life, and until now I had no idea of its definition. If you too are in the dark:<\/p>\n
Ubiquitous<\/strong> – adjective<\/em>: exisiting or being everywhere, esp. at the same time; Omnipresent.<\/p>\n I just looked it up. What a lovely word.<\/p>\n \u00a0If I’m honest the whole purpose of today’s post really has been to use ‘ubiquitous’ in a sentence, as along with ‘Serendipity’, ‘Nostril’ and ‘Crampon’ it has become one of my favourite features of the English language.<\/p>\n I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for baring with me through such times of random brain activity.\u00a0You see, I have decided that\u00a0as the grey matter controls what I write, and\u00a0with\u00a0my University\u00a0course\u00a0resuming next week,\u00a0I have decided\u00a0to let it\u00a0run off the lead for now and do want it wants\u00a0–\u00a0catch a few sticks\u00a0or chase the odd\u00a0cat for example.<\/p>\n I just hope it comes back when I call it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you ever find that random thoughts just pop into you head quite unexpectedly and take you by surprise? This appears to be happening to me with increasing frequency and in the most unlikely of places. For example,\u00a0on Monday\u00a0when I was\u00a0loading the dishwasher,\u00a0the name ‘Dean Gaffney’ flashed across my brain. Having no idea of who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}